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Eltoasto posted:I'm returning after 6-8 months away from the game and thinking about leveling up either Russia or Japanese planes. When I left, Japan had good teams and a few decent planes that could hold their own, while Russian teams weren't known for being good and the planes themselves underperformed generally once you got above tier 1. Is that still the case? Japan has delightful teamwork and communication that'll put a smile on your face, though you will have times of bringing T1-T2 performing planes against superprops and jets (and dominating them). Russia becomes CYKA CYKA BLYAT loss-leaders like halfway into T3 despite the pretty great planes 
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Shanakin posted:Not that this makes the D13 a bad plane or anything. It's perfectly able to deal with all these things and is one of my favourite premiums in the game. The 109G2 is a goddamn fantastic aircraft though, easily another favourite. I think going from T2 to T4/5 games would be an awful shock, as the playstyle is quite different. I think overall that T3 is the most fun tier to play and the G2 fits nicely into that tier, as well as being able to grind out most of the tree. Plus its sexy as hell. spectralent posted:Yaks are amazing and continue to be amazing for at least tier II and III, and I'd like to say they're still competitive at IV. As for teams, they have a bad rep, but to be honest most pubbies are bad. I'm noticing high tier planes players tend to be good as long as they aren't Americans, though. Fixed.
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Aug 2, 2015 16:08
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spectralent posted:
It's badly translated, you need to set controls for the "minimum" and "maximum" sight distance controls. I use + and - on the numpad myself as as you won't be adjusting it on the move.
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Aug 2, 2015 16:17
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Xerxes17 posted:It's badly translated, you need to set controls for the "minimum" and "maximum" sight distance controls. I use + and - on the numpad myself as as you won't be adjusting it on the move. I had shift - \, and I see how it works, you can basically adjust the sight height to where your shots landed so you can range in more efficiently, yeah? It doesn't seem to match the MG fire, though; from testing with the M4A1 at least, when you set the bar and switch guns the bar remains in the same place but the scale distances change. EDIT: Or is the idea that you range in the MG, then adjust to the same elevation on the main gun? spectralent fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Aug 2, 2015 |
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Aug 2, 2015 16:22
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spectralent posted:I had shift - \, and I see how it works, you can basically adjust the sight height to where your shots landed so you can range in more efficiently, yeah? It doesn't seem to match the MG fire, though; from testing with the M4A1 at least, when you set the bar and switch guns the bar remains in the same place but the scale distances change. No you're right I must have been testing weapons with very similar ballistics , it is different as you say. So yes you do need to correctly set the main gun range with what you found with the MG.
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Aug 2, 2015 16:30
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Xerxes17 posted:No you're right I must have been testing weapons with very similar ballistics , it is different as you say. So yes you do need to correctly set the main gun range with what you found with the MG. It's still convenient, but if ranging MGs had become pinpoint accurate that would have been amazing.
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Aug 2, 2015 16:30
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spectralent posted:It's still convenient, but if ranging MGs had become pinpoint accurate that would have been amazing. Well now you get get ranged for a particular distance near perfectly without even firing your main gun. Knowing pubbies they'll dismiss some MG fire hitting a spot as just random fire and drive blithely right through that point, and right into one of your follow-up shells. Also for the moment they'll dismiss you shooting the AA MG at them as just annoyance and stay still, allowing you to get a great first shot in. If the action gets popular enough you might even be able to spook people with MG fire, heh.
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Aug 2, 2015 16:39
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Xerxes17 posted:Well now you get get ranged for a particular distance near perfectly without even firing your main gun. Really it's just annoying there's no way to do this with the coax, since I'm fairly sure coaxes were meant for ranging, weren't they?
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Aug 2, 2015 16:44
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Turns out Paint.net is the solution to my swastika problem  
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spectralent posted:Really it's just annoying there's no way to do this with the coax, since I'm fairly sure coaxes were meant for ranging, weren't they? Theoretically, yes, as MGs on tanks had a separate range gradient, just like between various shells. You should be able to switch exclusively to coax, range, then switch to main gun. On some T4 and almost all T5 tanks had an analog computer that would automatically compensate the gun elevation between selected sights. Like, it should be much easier to range in game than it currently is.
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Ludicro posted:Yaks are amazing and continue to be amazing for at least tier II and III, and I'd like to say they're still competitive at IV. As for teams, they have a bad rep, but to be honest most pubbies are bad. I'm noticing high tier planes players tend to be good as long as they aren't Americans, though. Really, the best Yak is tier III, and no matter how high the BR gets pushed, it continues to hang with anything it fights. Has anyone played the premium Yak-3?
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Aug 2, 2015 17:41
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Ludicro posted:I think going from T2 to T4/5 games would be an awful shock, as the playstyle is quite different. I think overall that T3 is the most fun tier to play and the G2 fits nicely into that tier, as well as being able to grind out most of the tree. Plus its sexy as hell.
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Does this game have some sort of skill based matchmaking? Ever since hanging out with a squad of goons in arcade I've been mulched up in every game I've played. Like I got boosted way up or something from playing with a group. Also my planes have suddenly been unable to out turn bombers it seems. Also, for arcade planes, does anyone have a suggestion for where I should set my convergence point? I get into head-on fights a lot at the beginning so I've thought to extend it a bit for opening up at 1k. Doesn't stop my from always dying and at best getting a critical on the other guy even with 8 .50 cals going full blast. I'm bad at video games.
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Aug 2, 2015 17:55
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Broose posted:Does this game have some sort of skill based matchmaking? Ever since hanging out with a squad of goons in arcade I've been mulched up in every game I've played. Like I got boosted way up or something from playing with a group. Also my planes have suddenly been unable to out turn bombers it seems. Convergence in arcade comes down to personal preference more than anything. I like mine at 600m but a lot of people swear by having it much closer.
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Broose posted:Does this game have some sort of skill based matchmaking? Ever since hanging out with a squad of goons in arcade I've been mulched up in every game I've played. Like I got boosted way up or something from playing with a group. Also my planes have suddenly been unable to out turn bombers it seems. Matchmaking's generally just crap for a few BRs; I don't know if there's anything "skill based" about it, because I'm poo poo and only passingly good at tanks, but if you play stuff at BR 2 or BR 4 you will get uptiered to 3 or 5 literally 100% of the time*. *not literally.
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My convergence is at 300, because it probably won't be as much damage if you open up on an enemy farther away then that.
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Aug 2, 2015 18:15
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Famethrowa posted:My convergence is at 300, because it probably won't be as much damage if you open up on an enemy farther away then that. I tend to go with 400-500 convergence because I fly lots of things with big cannons that still hit hard at those ranges.
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Aug 2, 2015 18:18
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Amniotic posted:Really, the best Yak is tier III, and no matter how high the BR gets pushed, it continues to hang with anything it fights. Premium yak-3 is amazingly good, it's only flaws are Russian teams and a pretty low ammo load. Otherwise it's a perfect airplane.
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After 760,000 RP ground out with the T-34-100, I finally have the pretty pretty T-10M. Took it out for a couple matches and while the armor is as amazing/useless as I expected, the speed for a heavy is just great and is why you should get the tank, not because it can laugh off anything fired by poor BR7 tanks and some default BR8 ammo. Ludicro I hope you bought eagles through that Panfilov's 28 Men deal, because at some point recently they added a decal for people who did: 
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Aug 2, 2015 20:59
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In WT tiger is a good tank. But please give it a coax that works tia gaijin.
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Sard posted:Ludicro I hope you bought eagles through that Panfilov's 28 Men deal, because at some point recently they added a decal for people who did: No.  D9 is gud plane can confirm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uum9kJNnh4  
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YellerBill posted:I tend to go with 400-500 convergence because I fly lots of things with big cannons that still hit hard at those ranges. I guess it depends on the country. Anything I energy fight with I try to have low convergence because I'll be fast enough to be close to them often. Japan? Fahgetabout it.
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Aug 2, 2015 23:06
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 A soviet lack of fucks wins the day with an 11th hour capture while on fire. I think I earned that Heavy Metal Fury too considering I ate 13 player tanks that round.
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has anyone ever gotten anything other than a golden battles wager? Not that I'm complaining, I've used 3 and gotten an average of 833.333 GE per wager. Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Mr Chips posted:has anyone ever gotten anything other than a golden battles wager? It likes to give me back up jets.
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So a Narwhal just blew up my T-10M. And here's the view from the air.
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Mr Chips posted:has anyone ever gotten anything other than a golden battles wager? Nothing but wagers here either.
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 Diving like that is really dangerous in 262s...The other day I was flying this plane in SB and I couldn't tell if the bomber in front of me was a B-29 or G8N1 so I shot at it and got a TK from like 2km away which was worth the lions imo, even they thought it was funny.
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Did the bullet dome the pilot or something. How the hell did that happen.
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Larry Parrish posted:Did the bullet dome the pilot or something. How the hell did that happen. It snapped his wing in half iirc... I'll dig through my shadowplay folder there's probably a video of it cause I'm a nerd and hit the dump button basically anything even remotely interesting happens in-game.
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Larry Parrish posted:Did the bullet dome the pilot or something. How the hell did that happen. The AP ammo has ~110mm pen at 500m so it's quite capable of penetrating even some of the thicker top panels on a T10M with a decently steep dive. Still, not an easy thing to pull off. edit: oh the B29. Well it is a 50mm shell. It' fucks planes up pretty good when it connects.
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I am enjoying the IL-2-37 and think it's a good plane. EDIT: Also, what the hell is up with American teams lately? Playing Russians and Japanese and getting trounced repeatedly. Only Germany seems to win consistently, and not on Norway. EmpyreanFlux fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Mr Chips posted:has anyone ever gotten anything other than a golden battles wager? You are doing it wrong. Get 3.3 Russian tanks, put a Pe-3 into your deck for Tier 3 BR 2.7 goodness, then play with goons. 20 Wins no losses.
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FaustianQ posted:I am enjoying the IL-2-37 and think it's a good plane. Are you in the same BR as the lend-lease P-51? Those 4 hispanos make up for a lot of US pubbie incompetence.
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here's a couple video clips from that round: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2skBdT8fHh0&hd=1 on second look idk if that was actually legit 2km but the round was in the air for a while before it connected
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Are you in the same BR as the lend-lease P-51? Those 4 hispanos make up for a lot of US pubbie incompetence. I'm not sure, but I thought he was saying that he was playing against US teams and getting his butt kicked by them?
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Are you in the same BR as the lend-lease P-51? Those 4 hispanos make up for a lot of US pubbie incompetence. It's BR3.3 but I'm not seeing a bunch of P-51s, rather Spitfires, P-47s, P-38s and P-39/63s. I've had a Russian team evaporate in under 5 minutes. Mr Darcy posted:I'm not sure, but I thought he was saying that he was playing against US teams and getting his butt kicked by them? Yes this. Like, an IL-2-37 is really good at winning ticket wars and taking that advantage away from the US, but goddamn it can't fight for poo poo.
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